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http://www.leveragingideas.com/2014/12/22/performance-round-12212014/#commentsMon, 22 Dec 2014 11:19:08 +0000http://www.leveragingideas.com/?p=2233 I missed last week so will add a few older links into this round-up. How reading transforms … read more »

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http://www.leveragingideas.com/2014/12/07/performance-round-12072014/#commentsMon, 08 Dec 2014 04:11:46 +0000http://www.leveragingideas.com/?p=2228 A few interesting performance reads this week: For smart students, getting into a top college isn’t much … read more »

*I love posts like these as they are sort of like Charlie Munger’s suggestions to “always invert”. Instead of the typical post which would focus on what not to do, here is what you should do — to be worse off.
** I’m currently reading Tony Robbins new book and so far enjoying it. I have yet to see any new specific strategies that I would implement, but I’m still really enjoying it if only for the inspiration
*** I’m not sure why, but I love these random show episodes. It reminds me of conversations I’d have with my own friends
**** This is a bit of an unusual one as this podcast usually focuses on payment technology but I though this more philosophical episode was fantastic
*****I’m heading to Europe next week and hope to take the time to get myself back into writing some original content

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http://www.leveragingideas.com/2014/11/24/performance-round-11232014/#commentsMon, 24 Nov 2014 06:42:22 +0000http://www.leveragingideas.com/?p=2219Q4 has been busy, so I slipped with link updates for a couple weeks. Here are some of … read more »

* I’ve never really had a morning routine but have started to think about trying to incorporate some new practices that better set me up for the day ahead. In many ways my day really starts the night before

[Adults often grow out of it]…Perhaps one explanation is that adults have far more freedom to choose the environment in which they live and the kind of work they do so that it better matches their cognitive style and reward preferences. If you were a restless kid who couldn’t sit still in school, you might choose to be an entrepreneur or carpenter, but you would be unlikely to become an accountant. But what is happening at the level of the brain that may explain this spontaneous “recovery”?

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http://www.leveragingideas.com/2014/10/21/performance-round-10192014/#commentsWed, 22 Oct 2014 04:30:59 +0000http://www.leveragingideas.com/?p=2198A bit late getting to last week’s links: A new book shows us better and more efficient ways … read more »

Unlike Uber and Lyft, Thiel argued, there is no obvious competitor to Airbnb. That in and of itself makes it [Airbnb] a more valuable company

“Your job as an executive is to edit – not to write. Every time you do something you should think through and ask yourself: am I writing or am I editing? and you should immediately be able to tell the difference.”

“People expect to change little in the future, despite knowing that they have changed a lot in the past,” the authors wrote. “And this tendency bedevils their decisions-making.”